内容简介:

Corporate governance encompasses a set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions that affect the way a corporation is directed, administered, or controlled. Technology both enhances and disrupts the traditional board-centric corporate governance system, offering efficiency gains and transparency improvements while introducing new challenges and risks. This paper presents a comprehensive examination of three key themes: the redefinition of information and information asymmetry through the generation of and access to big data; blockchain's transformative potential in aggregating preferences and exercising shareholder voting rights while blurring the lines between securities and tokens; and the impact of smart contracts and their underlying infrastructure in expanding contracts and enabling decentralized governance through DAOs. These innovative technological solutions empower stakeholders to exercise governance rights effectively, but their complexity also gives rise to new barriers and inequalities. As technology evolves, collaboration among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners is imperative to ensure that corporate governance remains effective and responsive to the dynamic business environment.

演讲人简介:

Wei Jiang is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance and Vice Dean of Faculty and Research at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. She is a Research Associate of the NBER (Corporate Finance; Law and Economics), and is currently the President of the Society of Financial Studies, and Vice President of the American Finance Association. Professor Jiang's main research interests lie in corporate governance, institutional investors, and how technology reshapes financial markets. She has published extensively in top economics, finance, and law journals, and received numerous awards for research and teaching excellence.  She has been a five-time recipient of annual best paper prizes from the Top Three finance journals (the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics), as well as from practitioner associations. Previously she served as an editor of the Review of Financial Studies, a Finance Department Editor at Management Science, and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. Professor Jiang received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001. She was the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise at Columbia Business School up to 2022, and was the Vice Dean for Curriculum, Instruction, and Programs from 2016 to 2019 and a member of the Provost Faculty Advisory Committee from 2020 to 2022.

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